Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-10-12
A Chance for Doubt.

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Della Street, of Giles county, Tenn,
who claims to have spread her
white wings and sailed over the sea"
to the celestial city last March.
About February 1st, of the current
year Miss Street informed her parents
that on March 9th following. at A
o'clock in the afternoon, she would be
taken violently i'll; that she would
grow worse until the following day
at 8 o'clock p. NJ, at which time she
would die and remain in state of
death for 25 minutes, and that during
the period of suspended animation
she would visit that "house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens" I"
She asked her father not to send for
doctors, as human fundamentally
could not prevent her journey to Par
adise, and also told him not to be
alarmed, declaring with most implicit
confidence that after enduring the
sting of death for 25 minutes her
mortal and immortal natures would
reunite and she would again return
to her earthly home.
On the arrival of the day on which
she announced she would be taken i'll,
her parents evinced great solicitude,
inquiring hourly as to her condition.
She answered cheerfully and contin-
ued to admonish them not to be
alarmed. The hands of the clock
toiled around until 4 was finally reach.
ed. While the timepiece was upon
the stroke of the hour the young lady
was Frustrated with sickness and vio-
lent pains: tracked her body. Despite
her entreaties the father sent for skill.
ed physicians, who vainly administer
ed their most potent remedies, and at
8 o'clock on the 2Sth, they pronounced
life extinct. The sickness and death
occurred as she had predicted, and in
time so did the resuscitation. The
father remembered the declaration
that she. would return to life, and
looked at the clock, and 10 the PEN
dulum had ceased to vibrate, and the
old timepiece that had for years faith
fully tolled off the hours, had stop
ped while upon the stroke of 8.
When the girl returned to conscious.
ness the clock started of its own ac-
cord, finished striking the hour, and
has run since without interruption.
BY reference TO the watch Of one Of
the doctors it was found that she had
been insensible-shall we say dead
for 25 minutes.
After the return of animation her
tongue was paralyzed, and she indi-
Gated by signs that writing material
was wanted, which was provided. an I
she wrote description of the heaven
ly Jerusalem, clothed in the most ele-
CANT and chaste language, and de-
scribing a country more glorious than
any upon which the feet of fancy
have ever trod. The whole covers
19 pages of foolscap paper. She says
she is commissioned to read her manu-
script wherever she goes.
While in the home of the blest she
was asked by woman to write, after
returning to earth. to her great gram
daughter, Mrs. Annie B. Shelton, Of
Kinterbusb, Sumter county, Ala, and
tell her how anxiously her great
grandame awaited her coming. Our
informant is not positive as to the
correctness of these names, but thinks
that of the old lady was Mrs. Annie
Belmont. who said she had been dead
95 years. BY writing to the address
the girl gave, it was learned that a
woman of that name had died in that
place in 1772, and that she had
great granddaughter resident there.
Miss Street says she will be told in
1889 the date of her death.-Fayette.
vile Observer.